13 items from 2012
22 May 2012 8:50 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
One Three Media, reality heavyweight Mark Burnett’s joint venture with Hearst, is expanding into scripted television. It has hired HBO veteran Anne Thomopoulos to start a new scripted division for drama series and miniseries and run it. Thomopoulos has executive produced such series/miniseries as Rome, Camelot and Generation Kill as well as Tom Fontana’s European-financed and produced Borgia, on whose second season season she is working at the moment. “Our scripted division will be producing domestically and internationally, using both traditional models and new business models,” Thomopoulos said. Burnett’s first scripted project through his new company, a 10-hour miniseries for History based on the Bible that he’s executive producing alongside his wife Touched By An Angel star Roma Downey, is currently in production for a spring 2013 premiere. It is co-financed by Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, and Fox has worldwide home video distribution for it. One Three »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
27 April 2012 12:59 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The cast of the classic mid-'70s sitcom "One Day At A Time" got together for a reunion Friday on "Good Morning America" (weekdays, 9 a.m. Et on ABC).
The show, which presented a light-hearted look at the lives of a divorced mother living with her two teenage daughters, ran for nine seasons and never shied away serious topics. "The truth of the matter was, we were reflecting what was out there; it had just never been on television before," Bonnie Franklin, who played mother Ann Romano, told "Gma."
"One Day At A Time" also launched the careers of Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, who went in remarkably different directions after their time on the show.
Phillips, who played the rebellious daughter Julie Cooper, has spent years struggling with drug and alcohol abuse that began when she was a young girl. "My story is no different than any other kid »
- Alex Moaba
27 April 2012 12:23 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The cast of the classic mid-'70s sitcom "One Day At A Time" got together for a reunion Friday on "Good Morning America" (weekdays, 9 a.m. Et on ABC).
The show, which presented a light-hearted look at the lives of a divorced mother living with her two teenage daughters, ran for nine seasons and never shied away serious topics. "The truth of the matter was, we were reflecting what was out there; it had just never been on television before," Bonnie Franklin, who played mother Ann Romano, told "Gma."
"One Day At A Time" also launched the careers of Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, who went in remarkably different directions after their time on the show.
Phillips, who played the rebellious daughter Julie Cooper, has spent years struggling with drug and alcohol abuse that began when she was a young girl. "My story is no different than any other kid »
- Alex Moaba
6 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Though she's known these days as the sweet and innocent Lily on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Alyson Hannigan's biggest contribution to pop culture is indisputably her role as the sweet and not-so-innocent Michelle Flaherty in the "American Pie" franchise.
Her character's big reveal at the climax of the classic 1999 teen comedy, in which the audience's (and protagonist Jim's) perception of her goes from tame to over-the-top with one unforgettable "band camp" story, is a scene that has achieved near mythic status among millennial moviegoers, and we've all got a special place in our hearts for her because of it. However, Hannigan's very first starring role came more than a decade before she rocked Jason Biggs' world, in the sci-fi comedy "My Stepmother Is an Alien."
At the time it was a big career boost for the then 14 year-old actress, who had only appeared briefly »
- Daniel Hubschman
4 April 2012 4:34 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
When Titanic hit theaters the weekend of December 19, 1997, it only grossed $3 million more than the week’s other big release. That movie was Tomorrow Never Dies, which almost immediately killed the post-Goldeneye buzz of the Pierce Brosnan Bond era. The only other big release that weekend was Mouse Hunt, the third straight sad-trombone opening from DreamWorks Skg, which in 1997 was still trying to be a real studio (largely because they hadn’t yet discovered the winning formula of “Making Shrek sequels + Making Shrek spin-offs = $$$.”) But while those movies quickly faded down the box office charts in the ensuing weeks, »
- Darren Franich
29 March 2012 9:17 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Last week on Up All Night, we saw how the amount of screen time given to a guest star doesn't necessarily translate into a proportionate amount of chemistry with the usual cast.
However, on "Letting Go," Stevie Nicks was initially referenced in numerous scenes, which created a build up to her eventual appearance... which was just epic. She exuded this mystical yet fantastically entertaining aura of omnipotence. Some people, no matter their age, never seem to lose that edge, that special something for which they are known.
Sadly for Chris, such is not often the case for athletes who - unlike actors and musicians - depend on their bodies ability to stay youthful and competitive in their arenas. It is a very real issue facing many men. I often have said one of the worst things about getting old is that you no longer have an excuse to wear eye black. »
- cfohara4@hotmail.com (Chris O'Hara)
15 March 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
By Piet Levy
Religion News Service
(Rns) Many TV network executives, advertisers and producers would sell their souls to get the kind of audience God has. But giving religion a starring role in prime time? Not so much.
Religion, God and spirituality have made cameos across the dial from "The Sopranos" to "The Simpsons" -- though usually as a prop or walk-on role. But shows where religion is a central part of the premise are rare, and the ratings are generally far from heavenly.
Short of touchy-feely shows like "Touched By an Angel" or "Highway to Heaven," why is religion so radioactive in Hollywood?
This month, cable network TLC canceled "All-American Muslim" after only about 700,000 viewers watched the season finale of the reality show featuring Muslims in Dearborn, Mich.
Meanwhile, ABC's saucy new drama "Gcb" -- think "Desperate Housewives" in choir robes -- that's based on Kim Gatlin's novel »
- Jahnabi Barooah
22 February 2012 10:57 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Actress Roma Downey stopped by "Access Hollywood Live" on Tuesday to talk about her five-year marriage to reality TV mega-producer Mark Burnett.
Downey, who formerly starred on the long-running TV drama "Touched By An Angel," said that she first met her husband in a salon.
"He was having a haircut, and I was having a pedicure," Downey said. "Our eyes met in the mirror, you know, once, twice -- And then I thought, 'I can't look over again,' and I did."
The couple started dating in January 2004, and got engaged in November 2006 during a Thanksgiving family vacation in Mexico. They tied the knot in April 2007.
On "Access Hollywood," Downey fondly recalled her wedding, which took place on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, Calif. Downey's former co-star, Della Reese, officiated the ceremony. "Della's my mother, you know. We adopted each other on the show. When she first met Mark, »
- Jennifer Lai
9 February 2012 9:02 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Roma Downey is still being touched by angels.
Nine years after the end of her popular CBS series about Monica, the heavenly emissary who learned the ropes on Earth, the former "Touched by an Angel" star continues to seek inspirational projects. She's now generating some herself as founder of Lightworkers Media, which debuts the child-oriented, animated DVD series "Little Angels" Tuesday (Feb. 14) via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The franchise launches with three separate releases on the subjects of animals, letters and numbers. Featured on-camera in a parents' guide as part of the extra features, Downey tells Zap2it, "I've not ever produced an animated series before, so I just moved forward prayerfully to bring the best people to me. This animation style is colorful and simple, and I think the music is really great."
Preschool-age twins Alex and Zoe are the characters whose ceiling is decorated with eight Little Angels that come to life, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
2 February 2012 6:10 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Tommy Lee Jones’s production of Cormac McCarthy’s two-character play debuted last year on HBO to little fanfare. Now that the film has finally been released on Blu-ray and DVD, it deserves to be placed at the top of every cinephile’s queue. It is, quite simply, one of the best films of 2011 and the finest cinematic adaptation yet made of the great novelist’s work.
Using an oft-sentimentalized premise as its jumping off point, the film delves into a battle between two opposing viewpoints that question the fundamentals of existence. McCarthy’s astonishing dialogue cuts deep into mankind’s most primal obsessions and fears while allowing each man to articulate his impassioned beliefs, which are often as black and white as life and death. It’s only appropriate for the unnamed characters to be credited as White (played by Jones) and Black (a riveting Samuel L. Jackson »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
25 January 2012 8:09 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – With elements of “Pay It Forward,” “The Number 23,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” classic inspirational TV fare like “Touched by an Angel,” and the later seasons of “Heroes,” Fox’s new drama, “Touch,” is an absolute mess. The special preview episode airing tonight, January 25th, 2012 (nearly two months in advance of its actual series premiere), feels like it’s actually trying to set a record for heavy-handed emotional manipulation. 9/11, a single father, child illness, suicide bombing, child death, a school bus crash — if a writer came to most showrunners and said they were going to cram all of these melodramatic devices into One Episode, they would be told to go back to the drawing board. Because the result would be a disaster like “Touch.”
Television Rating: 1.0/5.0
From “Heroes” creator/writer Tim Kring, “Touch” is another piece of fiction that suggests we are all tied together in some interconnected spiritual sense. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
24 January 2012 2:28 PM, PST | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
Ben Lewin.s comeback flick The Surrogate has been acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures following its screening at the Sundance Film Festival.
Fox Searchlight reportedly spent $US6 million for worldwide rights to the film that was also penned by the former Australian. Lewin now resides in Los Angeles after moving in 1994.
The La times said the film sparked a bidding war between key distributors at Sundance, which involved The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate.
The indie drama boasts an all-star cast including Helen Hunt, John Hawkes and William H. Macy and is based on poet/journalist Mark O.Brien. O.Brien was stricken with polio at the age of six, and was left paralysed from the neck down. He spent the remainder of life in an iron lung. The flick centres on his journey to lose his virginity - something he achieves with the help of his therapist and even his priest. »
- Sam Dallas
12 January 2012 3:15 PM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
It's getting hot in here! The heat is rising and so are the laughs whenever I tune in to an episode of Hot In Cleveland. This TV Land gem has smitten viewers since day one with the phenomenal and effervescent cast, the side splittingly funny writing and dialogue, and the undeniable chemistry that this show exudes no matter what situation these manic ladies find themselves in!
Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Betty White have struck gold in Hot In Cleveland. The show has proven to be a vehicle that gives each one an extraordinary moment to shine in every episode be it storyline, dialogue or expression. Plus, with four strong standout women, there is absolutely one character that you can relate to or find a relatable quality in. It's no surprise these high quality females are burning up, each one comes from a glorious acting and sitcom background. »
- Lisa Steinberg
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